Hiring Manager Experience Surveys, AI-Assisted Application Reviews, and a Call for Recipes

Welcome to the tenth edition of Ashby Talent Digest, a community newsletter surfacing recruiting insights, podcasts, events, and more from across the web.

Insights Corner

From a recent refresh of our Talent Trends Report on Offer Acceptance Rates : As the number of candidates for a role increases (we reported on a 2-3x increase in inbound applications from 2021 to 2024 here ), we were curious to explore trends in where offer rejections stem from. We can immediately see in the data that offer rejections primarily come from candidates.

That said, there is a peak in more offers rescinded from the organization hiring from Q4 2022 through Q3 2023. Rejection reasons here could include the role being closed, not being able to meet salary requirements or candidate expectations, and so on.

New on Ashby

We’ve just released Hiring Manager Experience Surveys in Ashby.

These are surveys sent to hiring managers once a hire has been made to solicit feedback on collaboration with the talent team and overall recruitment process.

Customers use these surveys to strengthen their partnership with hiring managers while reducing the administrative overhead of managing this feedback loop in a separate system.

Other noteworthy additions:

• Secondary Calendars ?
• Better data in your reporting tool-tips
• One-off editing for offer approval steps
• Audit log for user permission changes

Whether you are actively looking for new talent tools, or just curious to see more, we’d love for you to join us at an upcoming Live Demo Webinar ! In this 45 minute session, Willem Wijnans (Community Lead and former Head of TA) will walk through a “day in the life as a recruiter” demo and answer your questions live.

Upcoming Webinars

?? Boost Your Strategic Impact with Strategic Capacity Planning

Join host Shannon Ogborn and JT Haskell , a Talent Leader with experience at Reddit, Inc. , Kraken , and Zapier , as he shares his proven system for capacity and headcount planning. Learn how to integrate talent into strategic decisions, utilize a point system for fair workload distribution, and see this approach in action.?

Elevate your role as a talent leader—don't miss these game-changing insights!

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Feature Launch Webinar: AI-Assisted Application Review

It’s not too late to join the upcoming event for our next major feature launch: AI-Assisted Application Review on September 10th.?

This feature is designed to help your team manage high inbound application volume and offers a step change in efficiency. In this event we'll:

• Unveil the new Al-Assisted Application Review feature in Ashby
• Cover existing Ashby features that help you manage high inbound volume
• Showcase best practices, tactics, and important considerations when introducing this technology into your workflow

Save your seat and register !

Ashby Community Cookbook - Call for Contributions

We’re hoping to get your help creating Ashby’s first community cookbook.

The book will be a curation of recipes from members across the TA community and then sold with all profits going to charity. By contributing to the book you will get a free copy, and entry to win a team cooking class for you and the team/community too.

Learn more and share your recipe with us .

Recruiting Takes from Around the Web

• SF is Back : Or did it ever really “leave”? SignalFire VC’s latest insights show that San Francisco is still the geography with the most critical mass of engineering talent and now, AI employees.?
• Job applicants perceive AI-powered hiring process as more fair when it is blind to race or gender : The phrase “perception is reality” couldn’t ring more true here. A recent study shows candidates who perceive companies to be using “fair” AI for hiring have more positive perceptions of the company, making them also more likely to apply.
• [Webinar] Enhancing quality inbound through candidate attraction : Earlier this week, we partnered with Deel and Pave to discuss strategies for improving inbound candidate quality. Check out these insights along with our previous article to help your team attract top talent!

Partnership Updates

Our Partnerships team continues extending our integration functionality. There are now 130+ integrations in the Integrations Marketplace , and the list is growing weekly! Here are the ones we’ve added since our last update:

• HireEZ [Sourcing]? – hireEZ is a talent acquisition platform empowering recruiters with sourcing, CRM, analytics, and automation. Their technology streamlines workflows to help you hire the right people.
• employbl [Job Board] - employbl provides candidates with a holistic picture of the job market and opportunities available to them. Candidates can filter jobs by tech stack, funding round and more.
• Coderbyte [Assessments] - Coderbyte is a technical assessment and interview platform that helps talent teams evaluate candidates quickly, affordably, and accurately.
• Sync2Hire [Other] – Sync2Hire is a secure, centralized, and compliant collaboration platform focused on the post-application phase of the candidate journey.?
• Boon [Sourcing] - Boon is a leading AI-powered referral hiring platform that empowers employers to access diverse, top-tier passive talent through the world’s most streamlined and engaging system.
• Skillsire [Job Board] – Skillsire is a job board revamping the job search. They connect qualified candidates with companies, using AI to ensure the perfect match on an innovative platform.
• Relay.app [Candidate Experience] – Relay.app is a modern, easy-to-use automation tool that sets the new standard for automation. Integrate Ashby with the other apps your team uses, like Google Workspace, Notion, and your CRM.
• Dado [Post Hire] – Dado saves HR, managers, & new hires 100s of hours by turning manual tasks, comms, and software set-up into automated, trackable, personalized onboarding journeys embedded in Slack/Teams.

Check out Ashby University and Ashby Release Notes for more information about these features, and reach out to [email protected] with any questions and feedback.?

Ashby Customers Hiring for People Ops/Recruiting Roles

Looking for a new role? Here are open jobs hosted on Ashby that are live as of this newsletter release:

Senior Recruiter at First Round (San Francisco, CA or Remote, USA)

Recruiter at Freed (Remote, USA)

Head of People at PermitFlow (New York, NY, USA)

Senior Technical Recruiter at Crusoe (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Head of People at Joko (Paris, France)

Executive Recruiter at Airwallex (Singapore)

Head of People at Xelix (London, UK)

Recruiter at Kittl (Berlin, Germany)